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The Volusia County Sheriff's Office is trying to figure out the identity of a body found Monday in rural Osteen. A man riding his motorcycle told the Sheriff's Office he found the body about 7:45 p.m. about 40 feet off Rudman and Oak View Farms roads. The location is east of Deltona and west of the 1,400-acre Wiregrass Prairie Preserve, along the St. Johns River valley. An autopsy is expected to reveal the cause of death. Investigators did not say whether they suspect foul play.

LOS ANGELES (KTLA) -- Conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart died of a heart attack stemming from coronary disease, according to an autopsy report released by the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office. Breitbart, whose posting of a sexually-explicit photo of U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner led to the congressman's downfall, died March 1. Coroner spokesman Craig Harvey said Friday that a negligible amount of alcohol was found in Breitbart's system but no prescription or illicit drugs.

Whitney Houston was submerged in bathwater for nearly an hour before a personal assistant found her dead in the Beverly Hilton Hotel, an autopsy report released Wednesday said. The report provided new details on the death of the 48-year-old singer who died of a combination of heart trouble and cocaine ingestion, the Los Angeles County coroner's office said in a 41-page final report. Early on, authorities suspected that some combination of narcotic substances, prescription medications and alcohol played a role in Houston's death.

A Polk County man remained behind bars Thursday after authorities say he fatally punched his 3-month-old daughter when she wouldn't stop crying. Christopher Scott Ryon, 27, was charged with aggravated manslaughter of a child, Winter Haven police said. "He wanted to take a nap," police said in a statement about Ryon's alleged motive. Three-month-old Riley Ryon was found unresponsive inside her unit in the Briarcrest at Winter Haven apartment complex when her mother, Kristine Bardell, came home for lunch sometime before 1:15 p.m. Tuesday.

Whitney Houston 's sister-in-law and manager issued a statement saying they are thankful to finally know how the singer died. "We are saddened to learn of the toxicology results, although we are glad to now have closure," said Patricia Houston, the singer's sister-in-law and manager, in a statement to the Associated Press. In a recent interview with Oprah Winfrey , Patricia Houston described the frantic efforts to revive Whitney Houston at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Feb. 11 after she was discovered unresponsive, submerged in the bathtub of her suite.

Looking nervous but professional in their white coats, first-year medical students at UCF College of Medicine on Monday faced Dr. Jan Garavaglia, the region's most recognized forensics expert, and told her why their first patients had died. Known to many as simply Dr. G, the chief medical examiner for Orange and Osceola counties and star of the Discovery Channel's "Dr. G: Medical Examiner" listened intently as the 13 teams presented their autopsy reports. "Students in other medical schools usually know how their cadavers died," said anatomy professor Andrew Payer, who runs the medical college's anatomy lab for first-year students.

New York City authorities argued in a court filing late this afternoon that the medical examiner who conducted the autopsy on Apopka Pastor Zachery Tims should be allowed to release the megachurch preacher's cause and manner of death. Tims' mother, Madeline Tims, who has fought to keep the information private, has two weeks to answer the response filed by the New York City Law Department, which represents the Medical Examiner's Office. The medical examiner's duties include investigating the deaths of persons who die in unusual circumstances.

The case of a body found behind a truck stop near Interstate 75 was called "suspicious" Wednesday. A man collecting cans found a man's body Tuesday in some tall grass behind Love's Travel Stop. An autopsy was completed but the results are not being released, Judge Cochran, a spokesman for the Marion County Sheriff's Office, said Wednesday. There was no identification on the body and the victim does not match the description of any missing person from Marion County, he noted.

What at first appeared to be a fatal crash turned out to be the result of a mobile-meth-making explosion inside a car on a Lakeland roadway, the Lakeland Police Department said Wednesday. Police were called to an overturned vehicle on Tuesday on the 3900 block of Drane Field Road, the department said, arriving to find a dead driver later identified as 36-year-old Clifford Ellison. Witnesses of the crash told police that there had been "some sort of commotion" inside the vehicle just before it crashed.

FAMU drum major Robert Champion's body was badly bruised on the chest, arms, shoulders and back when it arrived at the medical examiner's office, according to a full autopsy report released Wednesday. Champion's body showed extensive bruising and swelling as well as numerous abrasions, the report from the Orange-Osceola medical examiner said. Champion died Nov. 19 from "hemorrhagic shock" brought on by being beaten during a hazing incident, the medical examiner said last week when it ruled the death a homicide.